This is a very smart, wise response.
Along that line, and without laboring to read all the responses, I'll venture to suggest an aspiring writer become familiar with a wide variety of styles. I'd...
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This is a very smart, wise response.
Along that line, and without laboring to read all the responses, I'll venture to suggest an aspiring writer become familiar with a wide variety of styles. I'd...
Is wiping your a$$ with pages from Wolf Larsen's books better than using toilet paper?
Absolutely agree with Babyguile's assessment of Nothing to Envy. It was a very sobering read.
I'm almost finished reading the entire set of Will Durant's Story of Civilization series. I recommend...
Dumbest ***s?
Coming soon to Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Boy, I needed something to read because I sort of ran out of books and all. I really did! I sort of asked my son suave as hell if he had any god**** books. He took a lot of crumby English classes and...
The British Romantics are near and dear to my heart. Coleridge, in particular. I never get tired of reading "The Aeolian Harp."
Art-wise, William-Adolphe Bouguereau is my favorite.
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I agree with The Comedian and his recommendation of Thoreau's Walden. Let's throw in Civil Disobedience while we're at it.
Here are my recommendations:
The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis ...
I just finished rereading this masterful book for the second, possibly the third, time. I don't like to slow myself down by taking too many notes, but I bracketed some passages that I thought were...
Lee, are you referring to the most recent depictions of Sherlock Holmes? If so, I will say I was repulsed by them.
As for the portrayal of Frankenstein, the old version with Boris Karloff is...
I just finished reading it (again). Where do you get the notion an abnormal brain was put in his head?
By Frankenstein, I assume you're referring to the monster, not the creator.
One passage that escaped my notice the first time I read it comes from chapter XLVIII:
The first twenty-six graves in the Virginia cemetery were occupied by murdered men. So everybody said, so...
This tells me all I need to know about this site. Having just reread The Inferno, I take umbrage.
Yes, yes, yes! That very same thought popped into my head!
I just finished The Inferno rendered by Ciardi (is there any other version?) and I was impressed not only by the work, but the...
Indeed. You'd be better off reading a history of Renaissance Italy rather than Virgil.
Okay, allowing for some variety in tastes and quirks, sometimes a book is just banal, inane and stupid. One such book is required in many high schools to blunt criticism that most reading focuses too...
Quite.
I only remember one that had a bear in it. Late 1980s, if memory serves. I get the sense that those books appeal a great deal more to the committee than to kids.
The first book I read by Cather was A Lost Lady. I was not impressed, but then I was in the middle of pursuing an undergraduate degree and I guess it got pushed under a pile of other obligations so I...
I think my next thread should be What are you NOT reading to your kids? Some of the books I see here are prize-winners among critics. Sometimes that tells me all I need to know about a book. Is...
I particularly enjoyed Connecticut Yankee. That mercenary spirit of the accidental knight-errant posting advertising bills on the side of horses just made me laugh out loud.
and 1984!
Are you kidding? I teach high school Spanish. They've barely heard of Mark Twain, let alone Cervantes. If I used the expression "tilting at windmills," they'd look at me like I just grew another head.
Do. And thanks for adding me as a "friend." You're the first. But then I'm pretty new here, myself.
Now, that's LOLSHIWMP - laughing out loud so hard I wet wet my pants!
Hasn't anyone ever told you to read every other chapter? It's like reading The Scarlet Letter - skip the first chapter.
And then enjoy!